The album sounds like an enlargement of the sounds and spaces of their first album, an exploration shared by artists and friends who gravitate around this delightful musical project.
An eclectic collection of reinterpretations
Il Quadro di Troisi is a project by Eva Geist and Donato Dozzy, born out of the correspondence between the two artists about the late actor and director Massimo Troisi. This exchange soon became an inspiring source of identification that intertwined with the project, whose lyrics are sensitive and multifaceted, fit perfectly with the musical phrases and flow like a film monologue from Troisi’s own work.
Their self-titled debut LP (released in October 2020 as collaboration between the Raster label and Terraforma Festival) is a colorful ode to a fragrant Italian vision, brimming with detail and deep intensity. In 2023 the former duo officially became a trio with the permanent entry of Pietro Micioni, and in October of the same year they released Remixes; on Raster. Il Quadro di Troisi’s Remixes album, is the follow up to their debut release from 2020—an eclectic collection of reinterpretations of eight of the group’s tracks produced by Atom™, Dasha Rush, Front de Cadeaux, Il Quadro di Troisi, Chloé, Baldelli & Dionigi, Toulouse Low Trax, and Tropicantesimo.
By inviting fellow label artists as well as friends and long-term collaborators to contribute to this, Remixes shows a broad spectrum of diversity, ranging from colorful, loop-based renditions by Toulouse Low Trax and Tropicantesimo, to (Italo) disco-inspired versions by Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi and Chloé, to more rhythmical and functional tracks by Atom™, Dasha Rush and Front de Cadeaux. The album also includes a dub-infused reinterpretation of “Il giudizio” by the artists themselves. The record’s artwork was contributed by Spanish graphic designer Alicia Carrera.
Even though I almost lost the habit of listening to a whole album of remixes as it has been a choice undertaken by fewer and fewer artists in recent years, and has been very hard to find a proper listening ear. If in the era of Spotify the practice of remixing songs is commonplace, in any case the choice artist of The Picture of Troisi proves to be apt for some simple reasons, never banal. The album sounds like an enlargement of the sounds and spaces of their first album, an exploration shared by artists and friends who gravitate around this delightful musical project. As we write their second official album (La Commedia) is already out, but with a handful of songs, the guys managed to create a small sonic universe that feeds on the influences of the individual components, crafting then, a real journey, where the only thing needed—via our listening practice—is letting go of as much as possible.
Remixes is available on Raster. [Bandcamp]
